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A Federal High Court that sat in Lagos ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, or appropriate anti-corruption agencies to commence prosecution of some principal officers of the National Assembly allegedly indicted in padding and stealing N481 billion from the 2016 budget without delay. The judgment was delivered Monday by Justice Mohammed Idris, following a mandamus suit no: FHC/L/CS/1821/2017 brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP. The court also ordered President Buhari to “direct the publication of the report of investigations by security and anti-corruption bodies into the…

As speeches and parades peaked at the just-ended 2018 Democracy Day Tuesday, some Nigerians are disturbed that the country’s electorates do not realize that power belongs to them and not politicians, urging them to utilise it in voting for capable candidates and removing corrupt leaders from office. This concern stems from the fact that the electorates are hook winked by politicians using manipulations and intrigues typified by tribal and religious sentiments even financial inducements to control political power in desperate and egoistic manner. In what the people interviewed by Straightnews branded “amorphous democracy”, they reasoned that this democracy common to…

As the inferno of killings, kidnappings, rapes and arson in their communities rages, indigenes of Ukanafun local government area of Akwa Ibom State have thumped Governor Udom Emmanuel for his inability to quickly end the security ruptures caused by suspected insurgents. Straightnews gathered that Ukanafun is a second home to Udom said to be born and brought up by his teacher-parents in Ikot Etim in the area, though he is an indigene of Awa Iman in Onna local government area. And the insecurity to lives and property which has lasted more than two years now has gravely pillaged the mono-economy,…

The much-drummed free health-care delivery service by Udom Emmanuel administration in Akwa Ibom State for children under five years and the elderly from 65 years has been disputed by a nursing mother, Straightnews can authoritatively confirm. Governor Emmanuel inherited the free health-care delivery service from his predecessor, Godswill Akpabio and implemented as one of the five-point policy thrust of his administration. Speaking on a privately–owned radio station, Inspiration Radio, Uyo Wednesday, Dr. Dominc Ukpong, the state Commissioner for Health boasted that Akwa Ibom government is offering free health service to both indigenes and non-indigenes in the state for the past…

Suspected Fulani herdsmen, Sunday, raped, inserted stones and stick in the private part of a pregnant woman and brought out an unborn child in Yogbo town, Makurdi, the Benue state capital. The incident happened as the woman was relaxing with her husband in their compound but the man escaped when the herdsmen started shooting. The heartless herders used sticks to pierce through her private part to kill the unborn child, DAILY POST gathered. They pulled out both the child and the woman’s womb leaving her at the mercy of death. Upon her husband’s report, soldiers came to pick her corpse…

The leadership of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, said Tuesday it would meet again with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Wednesday to find an end to the on-going strike by the union. Saraki had met with representatives of the striking health workers on Monday in a bid to resolve the current impasse that has crippled activities in government health institutions in the past 43 days. JOHESU President, Comrade Biobelemoye Josiah, who stated this at a press conference in Abuja, said, “We shall be meeting with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, again on Wednesday (today) in continuation of our meeting…

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has charged Nigerians to take their destiny in their hands by procuring their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, to vote out the ruling party for failing to deliver on promise made prior to its victory in 2015 general elections. Secondus, who stated this in a Democracy Day prayer to Nigerians that the President would have no further opportunity to address the nation on Democracy Day, said never gain would a non-democrat as President Buhari be given access to power to put the country’s democracy in danger. He also urged…

National Assembly members Tuesday hit back at Professor Attahiru Jega, former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over claim that they take bribe before passage of budget into law. Jega had at the Democracy Day lecture on Monday alleged that federal legislators were notorious for bribe-taking. He had said: “Members of the National Assembly engage in bribe taking when they pursue committee works and oversight, and I wonder what is happening with intelligence and investigative responsibilities of security agencies in policing our National Assembly. “Some chairmen of the committees in the National Assembly have become notorious on this issue…

Mariah Carey, the music goddess, has sold a 35-carat diamond engagement ring worth $10 million her former boyfriend, James Packer give to her two years ago. The huge sparkler, which was worth $10 million, was part of the financial settlement the diva made in 2017 after her split from the Australian media baron. “Mariah has been very vocal recently about her choice to move forward in her life surrounded by positivity,” her publicist told me. “That requires leaving emotional and material baggage behind, including an old engagement ring from an ex-boyfriend.” A source said Carey had one of her business managers quietly sell the ring…

Cristiano Ronaldo cast a shadow over Real Madrid’s third consecutive Champions League triumph by suggesting he could have played his last game for the Spanish giants in Saturday’s 3-1 win over Liverpool in Kiev. Ronaldo, 33, has now won five European Cups in all, but failed to score in a fourth final as Gareth Bale was the hero for Real after coming off the bench to score twice. “I am going to enjoy this moment and in the next few days I will give an answer to the fans, who have always been at my side,” Ronaldo told BeIN Sports…